Houseplants

On our site you will find descriptions of a great number of indoor plants and flowers, helpful advice on proper watering, feeding and accommodation. Also we have found very valuable advice on breeding houseplants, recommendations for pest control and interesting historical facts about plants. |

Flowers in the house - it is not only the beauty and comfort, but also benefits. First, they decorate the interior. Second, give the rest the eyes and nerves, because the green calms. Third, produce substances such as volatile production, allocation, as it turns out, not only the firs and pines in the forest, but modest houseplants in your home. Furthermore, a devastating effect on many disease causing organisms. Add the most well-known property of green plants - their ability to absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. And finally, all the plants contribute to increase the concentration of light ions in the air.

Scientists, for example, found that costs just to start on your windowsill pot with dieffenbachia pestrolistoy, lemon, rose or myrtle ordinary Chinese - and the number of pathogenic microorganisms in the room will decrease by half. Laurus, cactus and ficus also produce substances, destructive to microbes.

Remember Grandma's aloe? It not only helps with colds, but also reduces the content of toxic substances, even at night gives off oxygen, absorb carbon dioxide. So it may be safely accommodated in the bedroom, and in the neighborhood - well Monstera humidify the air and neutralizes the radiation effect on the cactus.

They work "sinks" of hazardous and noxious substances also anthurium, mountain palm, aquatic fish tanks chrysanthemum bush and fern. And if you often "communicate" with a laser printer and copier - put a number dratsenu, because it neutralizes formaldehyde and trichlorethylene, which "gives" user, this technique.

The beginning is "room" flower in Europe can be considered the first appearance of winter gardens. Prior to that, the flowers planted in gardens and orchards, but their houses do not add. Of course, the plants if planted quite different, and the fashion house plants was no less changeable than its "Clothes" relative. She now goes on: in our homes come more and more representatives of the vegetable world, and often quite exotic. In particular, the discovery of America in his time not only gave us potatoes, but also opened the doors to our homes in such plants as agave, palm trees, and various cacti. The presence and size of the palm trees in the XIX century it became even measure blagostostoyaniya noble house.

All the world passes, pass with time and fashion in some plants. But our enthusiasm for growing indoor plants certainly will not go away and will only grow. Now plant breeding has ceased to be purely utilitarian function and is quite accessible to anyone who has the time and desire to tinker with the world's flora. And tinker with them to, because like any living creature, plants require care and attention.

The popularity of indoor plants continue to grow, and the market is changing. These days, buying more blooming than dekorativnolistnyh plants, and buyers - most people 20-30 years than in older age.

Our attitude to a potted plant, too, is gradually changing, in what has played a significant role, and science: in 1980 it was proved that stsindapsus, Chlorophytum, ivy, chrysanthemum and aloe - High-performance air purifiers. And now rarely seen self-respecting office without landscaping. How else to maintain a good state of health and mood of the staff in the room where vengeance operate computers, printers, copy machines?

Each year, breeders represent a lot of interesting new products that are significantly different from their sortotipov precursors. It flowers with greater endurance and resistance to diseases that have won praise of experts and lovers of flowers for their aesthetic characteristics - unique color scheme of buds, compact, or, conversely, more lush foliage, long blooming. Probably, very soon copies of these potted plants and indoor plants will appear in homes and gardens of those who follow the floral fashion.